The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 7
Even the horses’ shoes were of rubies with diamond nails, and I suppose that is the first time such a thing was ever seen.
Who acts: shoes, I, that, first time · What happens: be, suppose, see · To what, where: first time, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoes, I, that, first time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 horses | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horses | det |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 3 horses | case |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rubies | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rubies | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rubies | case |
| 8 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 nails | case |
| 10 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nails | compound |
| 11 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rubies | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suppose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suppose | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suppose | nsubj |
| 15 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rubies | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suppose | ccomp |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 thing | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 seen | advmod |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rubies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the horses's shoes | of rubies; with diamond nails | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | the first time not said here | such thing | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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